Communicating on Twitter during a disaster: An analysis of tweets during Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 392-398

  Takahashi, Bruno ^a   Tandoc, Edson C ^b   Carmichael, Christine ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Crisis; Natural disasters; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; HURRICANES;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; CRISIS; NATURAL DISASTERS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84928399762     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.04.020     Document Type: Article

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